When Chase asked Beth where they could find the grilled cheese she couldn’t help but beam, not my hearts still broken the light is on but no one is home beaming but B E A M I N G like the sun was radiating out of her pores. ”….oh there’s a stall over there – they add parmesean cheese on the outside of it and it gives this ugh, deliciously salty crunch” she might have even done one of those dramatic eyerolls you sometimes give when you can’t get enough of a delicious food.

You know the look. Gif not necessary to explain just how ridiculous she looked right now – or was it ridiculous?

Thinking for a second Beth just dramatically and decidedly grabbed onto Chases’ sleeve giving it a tug as she pulled him toward the other food stall. The line was bound to get too long soon and right now there weren’t too many people there.

He was probably right – he probably felt bad about the nickname thing indeed…”honestly I don’t think it was too bad of a problem? He gave me his dad’s hoodie after letting me know he’d passed away…he – he was just going to throw it away.” she huffed a little bit. ”…he had one though – popcorn stealer I just didn’t give it to him…Quinn did” she protested, and for a second she had to think about the nicknames.

Who else had them? WHO? ”honestly…its mostly you, Stella, my sister, and like I call Reese things from Reeceee and lil’red sometimes?” she did, but really it was honestly mostly Chase. The names had to fit.

When the favor came up she found herself nodding. ”of course, he’s your mate and your my mate…hell we should all just get together and hang out – all of us. Even Maeve. I mean it.” she chewed her lip for a moment as he gave details. ”sooooo like a confidence boost or like just you know maybe get the guy a drink and accidentally on purpose call the girl and coach him into asking her?” she offered as she raised an eyebrow.

She could do that. ”I’ll do it. I mean…you haven’t led me wrong yet --- mainly because I never really did give the option to? But that’s beside the point” she just shook her head and laughed. ”no no never tarnish…she just was upset thinking I’d been doing it in a hurtful way and then she just – I guess because I was honest and said it was a nickname and you seemed to not hate it that it wasn’t bad?...” when he kept talking and giving that face Beth just felt a swell of emotions. It was sweet and heartbreaking to see just how in love he was with Maeve. ”…you really love her, and its so so sweet and endearing – I mean it.” she beamed at him really the emotions she was feeling were more along the lines of being undeniably happy for him.

For them.

”okay – I’ll shoot her a text then” she muttered as they inched their way up in the line. ”there…she’ll be here later – probably when we finish eating knowing her” what – Cordelia wasn’t always the most punctual or maybe it was that she was probably still stuck at work trying to avoid people.